Irenaeus of Lyon
Passionate Apologist to the Gnostics
Martin Niemöller
Confessing pastor and repentant nationalist
Philipp Jakob Spener
Protestant pastor who founded pietism.
Thomas Forsyth Torrance
Ecumenical Theologian
Jarena Lee
Trailblazing African American Preacher and ‘self-made’ woman.
John Nelson Darby
Father of dispensationalism
Phoebe Palmer
Mother of the holiness movement
Walter Rauschenbusch
Champion of the social gospel
Justin Martyr
Defender of the “true philosophy”
John Donne
Poet of God’s love
Hildegard of Bingen
Benedictine abbess, visionary, and writer
Anselm
Reluctant bishop with a remarkable mind
John Bunyan
Pilgrim who made progress in prison.
George Whitefield
Sensational Evangelist of Britain and America
Harriet Tubman
The “Moses” of Her People
Benedict of Nursia
Father of western monasticism
Richard Baxter
Moderate in an Age of Extremes
William Gladstone
Prime Minister of impeccable morals
William Miller
Mistaken founder of Adventism
Perpetua
High society believer
Cyril and Methodius
Apostles to the Slavs
George Herbert
England’s greatest religious poet
The Venerable Bede
Father of English history
Francis Xavier
First missionary to Japan
William Carey
Father of modern Protestant missions
William Wilberforce
Antislavery politician
Bernard of Clairvaux
Medieval reformer and mystic
Origen
Biblical scholar and philosopher
Isaac Watts
Father of English hymnody
T.S. Eliot
Modernist poet
Geoffrey Chaucer
Medieval England’s greatest storyteller
Justinian I and Theodora I
Greatest Byzantine
George Fox
First friend
Charlemagne
Christian ruler of a “holy” empire
John Milton
Puritan author of Paradise Lost
Francis Bacon
Philosopher of science
Elizabeth Fry
Prison reformer
Nikolaus von Zinzendorf
Christ-centered Moravian “brother”
Anne Bradstreet
America’s first poet
Oswald Chambers
Preacher who gave his utmost